Summary
Ansgar Guido Karl Johannes Heveling (born 3 July 1972) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2009.[1]
Ansgar Heveling | |
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 Ansgar Heveling in 2012 | |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 2009 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ansgar Guido Karl Johannes Heveling 3 July 1972 Rheydt, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | CDU |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | |
Early career edit
From 2005 until 2009, Heveling served as deputy chief of staff to North Rhine-Westphalia's State Minister of Finance Helmut Linssen in the government of Minister-President Jürgen Rüttgers.
Political career edit
Heveling first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2009 German federal election, representing Krefeld.[2] He is a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection;[3] the Committee on the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure; and the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. From 2009 until 2013, he was also a member of the Subcommittee on European Affairs. He serves as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on copyright and criminal law.[4]
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections, Heveling was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on cultural and media affairs, led by Michael Kretschmer and Klaus Wowereit.
From 2018, Heveling was part of a cross-party working group on a reform of Germany’s electoral system, chaired by Wolfgang Schäuble.[5] Since 2022, he has been a member of the Commission for the Reform of the Electoral Law and the Modernization of Parliamentary Work, co-chaired by Johannes Fechner and Nina Warken.[6]
Other activities edit
- Deutsche Welle, Alternate Member of the Supervisory Board
- German Historical Museum (DHM), Member of the Board of Trustees[7]
- Haus der Geschichte, Member of the Board of Trustees
Political positions edit
In June 2017, Heveling voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[8]
References edit
- ^ "Ansgar Heveling | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "Ansgar Heveling". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "German Bundestag – Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ Ulrike Thiele (31 January 2012), Ansgar Heveling: Ein CDU-Politiker zieht in den Netzkrieg Der Tagesspiegel.
- ^ Robert Roßmann (20 January 2019), Kleiner, feiner, weiblicher Süddeutsche Zeitung.
- ^ Fechner und Warken leiten Kommission zur Reform des Wahlrechts Bundestag, press release of 7 April 2022.
- ^ 2019–2020 Annual Report German Historical Museum (DHM).
- ^ Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, 30 June 2017.
External links edit
- Official website (in German)
- Bundestag biography (in English)